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Fantastic word game

All the hi-fi equipment we still currently use has had a few gadgets and whatnot added over the years, but it holds up pretty well when it is the stuff from back then and not the stuff made in a certain country whose products are definitely not up to our quality requirements.
 
We are what we are by the grace of God, Who granted that we came along when we did and not in later generations who find it increasingly difficult to find Him.
 
We didn't need him anymore at our house, so we called the plumber and told him that Silkie simply took a flathead screwdriver, took the drain cover off, cleaned it, poured some boiling water down the drain, replaced the drain cover, watched water drain freely and saved us a $50 service call plus labor.
 
A $50 service call plus labour may have been the case in the days of Ma Bell, but not post-1984, although I imagine this call will cost me that much just for the hotel's long-distance connection fee alone.

[size=8pt]And greetz (again) from the Cornhusker State.

Almost twelve hours of driving, but I finally made it into Lincoln less than an hour ago. I ended going back to Helena last night--100 miles back-track, but thankfully there's extremely loose speed enforcement in MT so I made it in about an hour--because that's right about where the last Red Lion in the West is. The hotel in Billings was, as I figured, a crap-hole and the Stuart Anderson's "restaurant" across the road was a sleazy old tavern that looked as though it pre-dated the Prohibition. (Apparently the steakhouse chain I was thinking of [Black Angus] doesn't exist that far east.)

I'd rather pay $80 a night for familiar comfort than $23 for a crap-hole room along I-90 that for all you know looks as though it may have been a murder scene the evening prior!

Aaaaaaand.......
Unfortunately Centuryqwest decided to discontinue 950 service (another reason to hate the CenturyBorg) earlier this year, so this call is being made through 101-0288. So this means that check-ins from yours truly will probably be few and far between over the coming week. (A $6.68 connection charge levied by the hotel is outright ridiculous, and I'm paying cash. This may go down as being the most expensive long-distance call in the history of long distance calling!)

Edit add: I just remembered I packed my (the company's) cell phone and the cable to plug it into the laptop! Slow as sin (only 2400 baud right now) but at least long distance calls through it are free....
 
Begging for loose change, dmargalotti spent a few hours on the streetcorner strumming his guitar and humming a few tunes.


My, how the International Director of Band Camp has fallen. ;)
 
A few tunes by dmargalotti, with accompaniment by the junior swashbucklers of 7th Avenue comedy troupe, did not help the situation, because of their inferior costumes.
 
Inferior costumes were certainly part of the reason why we did not collection as much money as we had hoped for and now that you mention it, maybe we would do better if we had a few strategically timed wardrobe malfunctions.
 
In most states during the age of burlesque, a wardrobe malfunction denoted the completely opposite nightmare.
 
Shame On You was a consumer advocate segment on a local newscast in which a reporter would get in the face of someone accused of ripping off a local consumer and the reported would often be greeted with the words "no comment".
 
The Little League city title is usually won by the team with a star pitcher who looks like he could grow a beard, buy beer, and drive a car even though he's really only in middle school.
 
Only in middle school is modern terminology that includes 6th graders, but back in the day it was called junior high school and did not include 6th graders, but only 7th, 8th and 9th graders.
 


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